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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Traditionis custodes and “reception theory” – or – When a law is no law at all.
Have you ever heard of “reception theory”? Reception theory states that a law, in order to be a law, a binding law, must be received by the community for which it is intended. If they community does not receive it, … Read More
Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.
From The Pillar…. No… wait… Firstly, Fr. Altman is from the Diocese of La Crosse. He got hammered into the ground by his bishop for doing… I’m not quite sure what required that treatment. Msgr. Burrill – late of the USCCB … Read More
“Why, then, would Francis punish those who worship according to the Latin rite?”
From The Federalist. My emphases. The Latin Mass Is The Future Of The Catholic Church Pope Francis is punishing a faithful and devout minority of Catholics in hopes of staving off the inevitable. By John Daniel Davidson You don’t have to … Read More
It’s not just the numbers right now, it’s the rate of growth.
Last night during the rag chew on ZedNet, one of the participants wondered about why the crack down on Catholics who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. After all, the numbers aren’t all that threatening. I opined that it wasn’t just … Read More
Powerful denunciation of Traditionis custodes … by a bishop.
At Rorate, Peter Kwasniewski posted a translation of a powerful denunciation of Traditiones custodes – Francis’ Plessy v Ferguson attack on the Benedict’s Emancipation Proclamation Summorum Pontificum. The text is a workshop on what is wrong in Rome, what is right … Read More
Go to Crisis and read or listen to “A Time For Anger”
Stop what you are doing. Go to Crisis and read or listen to the brilliant offering by a young man named Clement Harrold. HERE A Time For Anger. Then come back. I look forward to your discussion here.
Card. Müller drills into Francis’ “Letter to Bishops” with “Traditionis custodes”
At The Catholic Thing there is a piece translated from the original German (by a good friend of mine, two, as a matter of fact), by Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller. The former Prefect of the CDF examines Francis’ new Plessy … Read More
VIDEO: Measured remarks from a convert about “Traditionis custodes”
Brian Holdsworth, a convert who was involved in a strikingly liberal parish for a long while, eventually began a family and started thinking in a new way about the Faith. He made the entirely reasonable and predictable move to the … Read More
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A quick review of 16 July
I know that it can be perilous to line historical events up on a certain day and ponder their meaning, but – given the special circumstances – let’s do it anyway. Firstly, 16 July. In 1945 the first nuclear weapon … Read More
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First reactions to “Traditionis custodes”
Today, 16 July, is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. During the Amazonian Synod (“walking together”), it was at her church in Rome, near the Vatican, that the shrine to to the demon Pachamama was set up. Today, … Read More
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